+ 4266.son
+ 4267.son
+ 4268.son
3495. LEWIS TILLMAN HAYNER, b 2 Jul 1898 Janesville, WI, d 30 Aug 1963 Deerfield, IL;
m 1929 Ellen Fry of Chicago, Il. He was an engineer with the Federal Communications
Commission specializing in rate regulation and operation of telephone companies. Later had his
own consulting offices in Washington and Chicago for many years. After her husband’s death,
Ellen Fry Haner was an office worker at the hospital in Deerfield.

4282.daughter.

+ 4283.son
3497. STUART WRAY HAYNER, b 21 May 1901, d 11 Jul 1965 Green Bay, WI; an early
game warden, he was an able and dedicated member of the Conservation Department of his state.
It was said of him: “Stuart Wray Hayner left an indelible mark on this region. He appeared on the
scene when he was most needed, and through his pioneering efforts changed the entire thinking of
the area from lawlessness and destruction to preservation. He was first of those Giants of
Conservation.” He m(1) 1931 Helen Maxine Morgan, b 13 May 1911, d/o Louis W.J. & Edith
(Case) Morgan; (div); she later m Mr. Bush of Eagle River, res Milwaukee, but they separated
and Helen became a waitress and hostess at a supper club in Eagle River. Issue in Madison, WI:

3534. ALLEN ALONZO HAYNER, b 1 Jun 1897 Brunswick, NY, d 4 Nov 1972; m 4 Sep
1924 Jennie M. Akin, b 8 Jan 1899, d 16 Oct 1988, d/o Charles L. Akin & Elva Collins of
Brunswick, NY. Allen A. Hayner and Jennie M. Akin had several ancestors in common. His great
grandfather David Frederick Hayner (#706) was a brother of her great grandmother Mary Ann
Hayner (#707), children of Frederick Hayner (#206). Also, David F. and Mary Ann Hayner
married a Bornt brother and sister, Jacob J. and Magdalena Bornt, children of John Bornt &
Magdalena Sheffer. See also data entered at #707, Mary Ann (Hayner) Bornt. Allen and Jennie
lived on the homestead farm of Allen’s father and grandfather in a large colonial home built in
the early 1800s. A farmer in early life, later Highway Superintendant, he and Jennie owned many
fine antiques which have come down in the family, as well as early Bibles, wills written in
German and early family papers. They had issue in Brunswick, NY..

Presented To
The Hayner Family Association
Made From Old Family Walnut Tree

The wood for this block and gavel came from a giant tree which grew on the Jacob Henry farm
on Bald Mountain, the property of Clifford’s grandfather, later owned by Allen and Jennie
Hayner. The stump of this tree still stands, a tree which sheltered five generations of Hayners.

The majority of the family lines listed in this supplement have not been connected with the main
line of the immigrant Johannes Häner who emigrated to New York State in 1710. Some of these
lines, especially those in upstate New York, may in the future be connected. Other lines are
definitely not from Johannes, but their records are included in this book at the request of family
members who may in the future find a connection in Germany or elsewhere.

Testing conducted by Family Tree DNA in 2007 compared the DNA profile of Hayner Family
Association President Clifford Nichols Hayner II to that of a male Haner in the line of Martinus

P. Haner. The results of the testing indicated that Martinus P. Haner’s line is directly related to
that of Johannes Haner, the immigrant. Now the researchers in this family must determine where
the actual link resides.
The children of Martinus P. Haner were among those who spelled the name Hayner. We cannot
place the ancestor of this Martinus, but tradition in this family claims relationship to the Center
Brunswick, NY Hayners. The towns of Worcester and Schenevus are a few miles apart in Otsego
Co., NY.

Ezra Haner was born in Grafton, Rensselaer Co., NY in 1802 and died in Ellery, Chautauqua Co.,
NY in 1888. We do not know the name of his father. A Charles Haner in Ellery, NY, perhaps his
son, is said to have thought that Ezra was son of a John Haner who had a brother Charles. He
removed to Chautauqua County, NY about 1840. A Mr. B.O. Simpson of Westfield, NY, said to
have been a Haner descendant, collected much of the data for Ezra’s 13 children, given below.
We do not now have adequate documentation for these children but have no reason to doubt the
main outline of the material. Ezra Haner was stated to be unrelated to John Joseph Hayner
(#1702), b 1848, road commissioner in Ellery, NY.

Henry Haynor, born 1793, was one of several sons of Abram Hayner (spelling uncertain) who is
believed to have been brought to America as a prisoner of war from Hesse. Tradition of Alice
Haynor Bull (#C35) is that her ancestor was a German mercenary. England refused to transport
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called “Pennsylvania Dutch” because their language was a mixture of German and Dutch.

[C] HENRY HAYNOR, b 1793 probably in PA, d 7 Aug 1890 in MI, at age 96. He moved to
Saratoga Co., NY where he m(1) 14 Jan 1824 Roxy Clements, b 1809 Saratoga, NY, d 3 or 13
Feb 1845 in MI, d/o Albert Clements. By tradition, Albert’s mother or father was of the Dutch
royal line; the father went from PA to Dutchess County, NY about 1788. In 1837 Henry and
Roxy Haynor moved to Michigan, traveling by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, then by boat across
Lake Erie to Detroit, where they purchased a Conestoga wagon and drove across the state to Ionia
County, 30 miles west of Grand Rapids. There they bought and cleared a 40-acre farm south of
Dildine in Easton Township. Henry served as Highway Commissioner of his County and was
reportedly a stockily built man; Roxy had blue eyes, dimples, and hair the color of honey. This
couple had 5 children, listed below. Roxy Clements Haynor died at age 36 from blood poisoning
contracted while nursing a sick neighbor; Henry remarried and had a daughter.
+
C1.Tobias C., b 1827
+
C2.Isaac Benjamin, b 6 Feb 1831
+
C3.Katharine J., b 1835
C4.Charles H.; when 21 he went to California, then to Colorado to prospect in silver
mines; married, raised a family in the West.
C5.Teresa, b 1843, d 1874; married a Clements cousin, was left with two children at an
early age; is said to have died of a broken heart at age 31.

John Peter Hayner was born 1817, probably in Rensselaer County, NY (although in the 1850
census he is listed as born in Germany). He died near Troy, NY in 1851, but neither his place of
burial nor that of his wife has been found. He is called “Peter John Hayner” in the first edition of
this book, but the name is given in Civil War pension papers of two of his sons as “John P.
Hayner”. He probably descended from the Palatine immigrant Johannes Häner, born 1675 in
Germany, but a baptismal record has not been found. Records were not well preserved; he and his
wife died in their 30s.

[E] EZRA HAYNER may have been born in Germany, but informant may have meant of
German descent. In census records for his son, George Warren Hayner, George’s parents were
said to be born in New York. Ezra lived in Rensselaer County, NY, settled first in Kalamazoo,
MI, then Shelby, MI, then settled in East Jordan, Antrim County, MI, where he died. He married
and had at least one son:
+ E1.George Warren, b 6 Mar 1840
E1. GEORGE WARREN HAYNER, b 6 Mar 1840 Rensselaer Co., NY, d 12 Aug 1911 East
Jordan, MI. He m(1) 1860 Martha Cottrell, who d 1867 at birth of her child Elmer.

Dr. Jonathan Nelson Haner was the first medical doctor in Clymer Township, Tioga County, PA,
in north-central Pennsylvania just south of the NY-PA state line. The 1850 census of Westfield
Township lists him as J.M. Haner, physician, born New York. We do not know where in New
York he was born, nor do we know the connection with other Haner families. The 1860 and 1870
census records of Clymer Township erroneously list him as “J. M. Haner, farmer”, but an 1866
notarized document says that J. N. Haner, M.D. was a physician and surgeon of good repute. He
was born in New York State in 1801 and died in PA in 1871. He and his wife are buried in
Sabinsville, PA; his gravestone inscription has “Jonathan Nelson Haner” on the arched top, and
the initials are on the face of the stone, with dates.

[F]. JONATHAN NELSON HANER, b 1801 New York State, d 1871, the first doctor in
Clymer Township of Tioga Co., PA, d in PA. He m Mary Reynolds (Polly), b 1801 Greenville,
Greene Co., NY, d 1893, d/o Samuel Reynolds & Abigail Belding. Both are bu in Sabinsville,
PA. He was usually known as “Dr. J. Nelson Haner”. In the mid 1860s, some of J.N.’s household
went to Lenawee Co., MI; at least two of his sons remained there; Amzi and Mary returned to
PA. Dr. Nelson Haner is said to have been poisoned over the Gurnee Mine land deal.

F1. WARNER HANER, b ca 1823 in NY, d Apr 1895. He never married; lived with his sister
Mary Sawyer Potter, Troupsburg, NY. He was admitted Jan 1895 from Richmond Township,
Tioga County, to the Wellsboro, PA, County Farm, where he was buried in Apr 1895.

F2. MARY ABIGAIL HANER, b 21 Dec 1832 Nunda, NY, d 1912 She m(1) Ward Sawyer,d
1863, in Troupsburg, NY; the family with 4 children went to MI in 1860s. He enlisted in the
18th Regiment of Michigan Volunteers, died in KY. She returned to Clymer Twp., Tioga Co.,
PA. Issue: (SAWYER)

Among the first settlers in the southwestern portion of Virginia (which later became Logan
County, West Virginia) was Lewis Haner. Born between 1750 and 1760, this gentleman farmer
was the earliest known progenitor of the Haner-Hayner-Haynor-Hainor clan of Logan and Boone
Counties. We have been unable to find a connection of this Lewis Haner with the Palatine
immigrant Johannes Häner who settled in New York State in 1710 and whose descendants form
the main portion of this book. Around 1806, at a time when Kanawha County still encompassed
Logan and Boone Counties, Lewis Haner came with his wife, whose name is unknown, and
children to establish a domicile on the Trace Fork of Big Creek. Although he later migrated to
Lawrence County, Ohio, he left an ineffaceable record in Logan County. Many of his descendants

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still reside in the area he helped to settle.

[G] LEWIS HANER b ca 1750, parents not known, wife’s name not known. He came to what is
now Logan Co., WV in about 1806; removed to Lawrence Co., OH ca 1840.
G1.Jacob b 1783; (LDS has b 1782) m 9 Nov 1809 Dicy Barker, b 1786 or 1787 VA, d
bef 1840; d/o Jacob Barker & Susan Garner, in (then) Kanawha County, VA. A veteran of the
War of 1812, he was widowed before 1840 and appears to have died childless between 1860 and
1870.

+
G12.Nancy, b ca 1820
G3. JAMES HANER, died at an early date; m Mary Stallings (Polly), b 1803 in TN, d Logan
Co., WV after 1880, d/o Jacob Stallings, a minister and early settler in the same area of Logan
Co. as the Haner family. The Stallings family came from the Guyandotte River basin in the part
of NC which later was in TN. In Jacob’s 1817 will she is named as Mary Haner, wife of James
Haner; she is in the 1850 Federal Census of Logan Co., VA (which became WV in 1863).

Harmon Hanor was born in Germany, according to a published biography of his grandson
Nimrod N. Haner (#H20); he was a sadler in Falmouth, VA; resided in Stafford County, VA
before 1763. The court records of this county in Fredericksburg, VA were pillaged by Union
soldiers who carried away and mutilated many record books; about 75% are still missing. Not a
single record book of any description is extant there for the period 1764-1780, exactly the time of
interest to us. Harmon Hanor, as a resident of Stafford County, purchased land in St. George
Parish, Spotsylvania County in 1778; he died testate ca Jan 1795 in Spotsylvania County, VA. He
is mentioned by name in numerous officially recorded transactions in Spotsylvania and Stafford
Counties, 1763-1830. In later generations, the spelling of the surname in this family has been both
Hanor and Haner.

A Harmon Hiner/Haner/Hanor was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1742, came to PA about 1770
with his brothers John and Alexander (see section X); Alexander and John went on to Virginia
after they helped Harmon build his home in Pennsylvania. We do not know if these two Harmon
Hanors were related to each other in Germany. They were definitely not descendants of Johannes
Häner, the 1710 Palatine immigrant to New York who is the subject of the main portion of this
book.

+
H10.Mary B., b ca 1809
H2. HARMON HANOR, Jr., b ca 1766-1768 in VA, d ca 1844 . He migrated ca 1803 with his
family (probably including his mother) to Co., KY, moved 1807 into Warren Co., KY at Drake’s
Creek southwest of Bowling Green, where he was a tobacco farmer and a minister late in life. He

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m before 1793 Margaret Pemberton, d/o William Pemberton & Elizabeth Vaughan. They had

Testing conducted by Family Tree DNA in 2007 compared the DNA profile of Hayner Family
Association President Clifford Nichols Hayner II (#3585) to that of Keith James Hayner (J162).
The results of the testing indicated that the line of James Hayner is directly related to that of
Johannes Haner, the immigrant. Now the researchers in this family must determine where the
actual link resides.

[J] JAMES HAYNER, of Washington County, KY, was born about 1749, whether in Germany
or in America we do not know; he died 12 Feb 1849. In an 1850 court record it is stated that “the

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said James Hayner was very old when he died about one hundred years old and his wife died
many years before his death.” At the time of his death James Hayner lived on a tract of land
between 300 and 400 acres on Hayner’s Run of Beech Fork just above Prather’s Creek near
Springfield, county seat of Washington County, KY, some 50 miles southeast of Louisville. He
was on this land as early as 1806. His son John was executor (with James Hayner as bondsman)
of his brother Solomon’s estate ca 1830, and John was in financial trouble when he took out
mortgages beginning in 1842. After the death of John in 1846 the aged father became liable for
unaccounted funds, resulting in a partition suit in 1850 which gave the date of death of James
Hayner, and his heirs. Information in this lengthy document has been used in preparing these
notes, as well as data from several descendants. The name of his wife is not known; there is some
indication that he might have lived in South Carolina before 1806. The 1819 will of a Catharine
Haner in Washington County, KY does not mention any familiar names; she mentions a son
Conrod Adams. She may have been the wife of James Hayner (not proved)

J1. JOHN HAYNER (Jack), b South Carolina (per 1880 census of his son James in Macon Co.,
MO), d Jan 1846; m 2 Aug 1815 Isabella Hardin, b 22 Aug 1797, d/o “Stiller” Ben Hardin &
Elizabeth Clark of the Pleasant Run and Beech Fork area of Washington Co., KY. Isabella is
named as Ben’s eldest child in his 1820 will and John Hayner was one of the executors. Stiller
Ben Hardin was s/o Mark Hardin and grandson of “Major” John Hardin, pioneer early sheriff of
Frederick Co., MD before following the frontier to the Bardstown, KY area. His widow and all
but her eldest child were in the 1850 census of Saline Co., MO; she was not in 1860 census,
probably died in mid-decade. The eldest son, James Madison Hayner, went to Macon Co., MO
about 1855.

J7. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HAYNER, b 1 Jan 1821? in Washington Co., NY, b 1823 in NY
acc. to his discharge papers; age 24 on 1850 census, age 37 in 1860 census, age 38 at enlistment
in Aug 1862; he d 6 Apr 1884 Greene Co. MO; was a private in the 7th Missouri Cavalry,
Company I, discharged 27 Feb 1863 because of chronic hepatitis contracted in the service. He
was a blacksmith and carpenter. In 1850 he was living in Saline MO in the home of his ststerwith
hHed was living He married in Lebanon, Marion Co., KY 5 Jun 1854 Sophronia Ann Skinner,
who was age 15 by her own statement; b Jan or Oct 1839 in Louisville KY, d 4 Mar 1911, d/o
Taliaferro Skinner (per Peggy Fuller). She was probably part Indian, according to tradition in
family of her great-grandson Harry Hayner. She ran away from home at age 15 to marry and was
disowned by her father. She died 4 Mar 1911 in Christian Co., MO. The following record of
births of their 12 children is from a Bible of Mrs S. A. Hayner, notarized at Billings, MO in 1886
at the time of her pension claim; some deaths were added later. The three oldest children are
listed in the 1860 census of Saline Co., MO.

J11. LUCINDA HAYNER, b 1817, d ca 1879, age 62y; m ca 1836 or 1837 in KY Simon Best,b
1814 in KY. Tradition is that Lucinda was a cousin of John Rowan, owner and master of
“Federal Hill,” better known as “My Old Kentucky Home” of Bardstown, KY in the neighboring
county. Mrs. John Rowan was Anne Lytle, b 1774 near Carlisle, PA, and Mrs John Rowan Jr.
was supposedly a niece of Francis Scott Key. Issue: (BEST) [they had 12 ch]

He mca1839 Pauline Suttles J16. HENRY HAYNER, b ca 1830, d ca 1850 age 19y, d after his
father’s death in 1846 and before his grandfather’s death in 1849. . Their son John was an infant
in 1850 who was represented in a partition suit by his next friend, his uncle Simon Best.

J137.Victor Laverne, was soldier in last U.S. cavalry outfit, Brownsville, TX 1928-32.

J138.daughter.

J139.son

J140.son

J68. HARRY DACON HAYNER, b 2 Jan 1895 Springfield, MO, d 29 Aug 1981; he stated to
his son Harry Jr. that he was part Indian; he m 19 Apr 1922 Leona Josephine Frank. He never
used his middle initial; was a semi-pro baseball player for KC Southern and was an engineer on
the Kansas City Southern RR for 52 years. He had 4 ch including Harry Jr. of Kansas City, MO
(see below).

Doyle E. Hayner wrote in 1967 that his Hayner grandfather may have been Benjamin, originally
from New York State, who married a Skinner of Louisville, KY. Her father was displeased with
the marriage (possibly because of her tender age of 14 or 15) and she was disinherited. The

Hayners migrated to Missouri near Springfield and raised a large family. After Doyle’s
grandfather’s death and his grandmother’s remarriage, his father left his home in MO at age 14,
became a cowboy in Texas and Oklahoma and a Sooner in the Oklahoma Run. Doyle’s father and
the father’s(?) older brother John died before he left MO. A younger brother is said to have
played baseball with the Kansas City team and raised a large family there. There are many
allusions in Doyle’s information that ties in with our J7 family as related by Harry Hayner and
others. Doyle’s son could not be reached in 1989, and we are no longer in touch with this family.

Michael Hayner, born 1807, spelled his name Hanner in Germany; he had a sister who lived in
Frankfurt, Germany. He and two brothers (names unknown) came to America about 1840. The
name was changed to Hayner by Michael and his brothers after their arrival in the United States.

+ K2. John Martin, b 1848, d 1923. Enlisted 10 Sep 1864 in the 13th Artillery; his discharge
papers give his name as John Martin Hanner.
+
K3.Albert, b 1852, d 1920
K4.Liffa, d 1920. She may be the dau Margaret.
K2. JOHN MARTIN HAYNER, b 1848, d 1923; res on a farm at Averill Park, NY which has
remained in the family for over a century. He m Caroline Eckstine, b 1851, d 1943.

Frederick Heiner (Hyner, Hiner) was the 6th of 10 children of Philip Heiner who was born in
Weinheim, Germany ca 1718. Philip came to PA on the ship “Nancy”, Capt. William Wallace,
signed the immigration paper in his own hand as Philipp Hainer, and took the oath of allegiance
on 30 Sep 1738, age 20 years. Philip(p) married in Germany, but his wife’s name is not known;
he settled in Dover Township, York Co., PA. This place is in the part of York Co. out of which
present Cumberland Co. was formed. Philip’s older brothers John and William Hüner (Hiner)
came to America at about the same time, landed at Perth Amboy, NJ and first settled near
Hunterdon, NJ. John joined his brother Philip in York Co., PA, and some of William’s family
went to Maryland whence they spread to the western part of the country.

This family has been traced 4 generations earlier than Philip, to Philipp Jacob (1693), s/o
Hans Adam (1662), s/o Herman (1590), s/o Leonhart Hüner who died in Weinheim ca 1597.
They were physicians and vineyard-holders on the border between Hesse and the Palatinate.
Leonhart’s baptismal sponsor was Herman Gössgens of Jülich on the lower Rhine, a possible
origin of the family, but note that Jülich is some 180 miles north of Weinheim, near the Holland
border. Leonhart was the first to add the “er” to the name Hüen or Hain, a word signifying a
“cock”. Addition of “er” signifies a group of people involved with roosters or cocks. Others
believe that the name was that of a remote ancestor who from his bravery or aggressive
disposition was nicknamed with the old Middle-High German word for “cock.” All old coats-ofarms
have a cock or rooster, but there is no record of this shield being granted to any particular
Hüner/Heiner family. We have not made a connection with the Storndorf family of our Johannes
Häner.

It would take us too far afield to give details of this large and well-researched
“Pennsylvania Dutch” family; we refer you to two published studies of the family: They Went
West, by John R. Hensell and Charles M. Heiner (1987, 233 pages, $25 from John Hensell, 7720
Bradford St., Houston, TX 77087) and The John and Jane Fleming Hayner Genealogy, by Laura

E. Rosnagle (1983, 486 pages, $37.95, available in some libraries. We give as unconnected lines
only the direct ancestry of the persons mentioned above, who have been in touch with the Hayner
Family Association for many years, and refer you to their books for complete listings.
[M] FREDERICK HEINER (Hyner), b ca 1752 in York Co., PA, was commissioned a First
Lieutenant 1778 York Co. Militia, 8th Company, 7th Bat., Capt. George Gisselman. He m ca
1775 Magdalena — ; three of the children were bp in Emanuel Ref Church, York Co., PA where
he was a church officer. He sold out in Mifflin Twp., York Co. on 1 Mar 1784 and moved to
Venango Co., PA. Possibly there was a another child in addition to those listed here. The place
of burial of Frederick and Magdalena not known.
+
M1.Robert, b 15 Aug 1778 [Hyner]
+
M2.John, bp 10 Oct 1780 [Hayner]
M3.Elizabeth, bp 10 Oct 1782
M4.Susannah, bp 9 Feb 1784
M5.James, b 1787 Venango Co., PA, res Irwin, PA [Hainer]
M6.David Augustus, b 1791, Ohio River pilot, early 1800s (unproved).
M1. ROBERT HEINER (HYNER), b 15 Aug 1778 York Co., PA; was a Major, 132nd
Pennsylvania Regiment under General Meade at Erie; later at Camp Lee. He married twice, had a
total of 24 children, not all listed here. He m(1) 16 Nov 1798 Nancy Johnston; she died and he

M2. JOHN HAYNER, b 23 Feb 1780; bp 10 Oct 1780 Emanuel Ref Chrch, York Co., PA; d 21
Sep 1860 Springboro, OH; m 12 Sep 1816 Jane Fleming, b 22 Apr 1791, d 20 Jun 1858, d/o
William Fleming of Fredericksburg, VA. Since he was age 36 at this marriage, he may have been
married before in PA. John went from somewhere in PA, possibly Venango Co., to VA ca 1814;
children all born near Winchester, VA. They came to Springboro, Warren Co., OH with their
young family.

M8. FREDERICK HEINER (Hiner), b 28 Oct 1800 York Co., PA, d 8 Apr 1838 Fleming Co.,
KY of pneumonia contracted while deer hunting. He followed his brother James to Fleming Co.
and in 1824 obtained a grant of 50 acres adjoining his brother’s. The old home still stood in 1958
between Poplar Plains and Plummer’s Mill, KY. He m 8 May 1823 Rebecca Pointer, b 1806
KY, d 17 Aug 1870 Fleming Co., KY; d/o Samuel Potts Pointer This order of children and dates
are from Hensell’s 1958 book, revised by correspondence with him in 1990.

M70.Laura Elva, b 1 May 1899, d ca 1995; unm. She was Dean of the School of Nursing
and Health at University of Cincinnati; a genealogist and historian; author of a History of her
School of Nursing and Health; author of The Genealogy of John and Jane (Fleming) Hayner,
published 1983.

John Henry Haner was born in 1840 in Prussia, Germany (town of birth not known, but believed
to be near the present Holland-Germany border), died in 1914 at Waverly, MN. He emigrated
from Hamburg in 1853, alone, and entered the United States at Baltimore, MD. It is believed he
lived with relatives including an unmarried older sister in Jersey Township, Lycoming Co., PA.
To obtain land he moved to the Minnesota frontier in 1859. In 1861 he enlisted at Monticello,
MN in the First Regiment of Minnesota Volunteer Regiment, and was wounded at Antietam, MD.
When he returned to PA to see his sister, she had married and left; her married name was
unknown and John could never find his sister. At the time of his marriage in 1868 to Catherine
Mary Cook he started to spell his name HAYNER. John Henry and Catherine died on their 80acre
homestead at Waverly, Wright Co., MN; this farm is still occupied by a 3rd-generation
Hayner. The first 3 children were born in Minneapolis; the last 6 were born in Waverly.

Phillip Beauchamp, b 28 Dec 1881, d 3 Jul 1956. He had previously married and had a child,
Rose Anne, whose mother died in childbirth in 1901. Minnie and Gilbert lived at Stillwater, MN.
Issue: (BEAUCHAMP)

N30.Lawrence, b 10 Nov 1903, d 20 Nov 1925; unm; bu Waverly.

N31.daughter, grandchildren.

N32.son, grandchildren.

N10. JOSEPH WILLIAM HAYNER, b 18 Oct 1891 Waverly, MN; d 12 Apr 1962. He m 21
Jun 1913 Armedia Amelia Sjoholm, b 11 Aug 1893, d 11 Apr 1977, d/o Anders Nels Nillson &
Anna Johnson. To obscure his unauthorized departure from Sweden, Anders changed his name to
Andrew Nels Sjoholm. After 5 years in America, he sent for Anna when he had saved enough for
their marriage. They lived at Afton, MN. Joseph also lived at Afton, MN, where their first 5
children were born.

The obituary for this man was in a Troy, NY newspaper: “Charles E. Hayner, a Civil War veteran
and well known farmer of Grafton, died Tuesday, at the Troy Hospital, age 70 years. He came to
Grafton from Pittstown about 10 years ago. The survivors are his wife, three sons Elmer, Albert,
and Chester Hayner, his daughter Lena and a sister. Funeral will be held Saturday from the Eagle
Mills Methodist Church.” He is buried in the Eagle Mills Cemetery. It was George Warren
Hayner, son of Chester Hayner, who said that his grandfather Charles Enos Hayner was son of a
Michael Hayner, grandson of a Martin Heiner, and great-grandson of John R. Heiner. We
have been unable to connect these people with the family of the 1710 immigrant Johannes Häner
(Heiner), several of whose sons came to Rensselaer County about 1740. We do not now know the
sources of all of the information below. Note the listing for #1254.Charles E. Hayner in our
Volume 1, s/o George P. Hayner; the connection, if any, is not clear.

This soldier and emigrant to Canada was born 1773 in Gildwiller, Alsace, son of Frantz Theobald
Henner who married Magdalena Bitsch in 16 Nov 1767 in Gildwiller. His great-great-grandfather
(I) Urs Henner and wife Christiane Kemyss migrated from the village of Buttwil, Argovie
(Aarau), Switzerland to Bernwiller, Alsace, about 1682. Successive generations were: (II) Johan

Georg Henner (b 1664), m Barbara Schmerber; (III) Georg Guilhelm Henner (b 1700), m
Catharina Armspach; (IV) Frantz Theobold (senior) (b 1737), m Magdalena Bitsch. The German-
speaking Frantz Theobald (junior) served in the French Army of Napoleon, was taken prisoner in
Spain by the British Army in 1812 and was transferred to a prison camp in London. In March
1813 he joined the Swiss “De Watteville” Regiment of mercenaries, serving under the British flag
in Canada in the war against the United States. He served with the German Battalion of this
regiment in Upper Canada until 1816. After the war, he was sent back to England and discharged;
he married (first) in Alsace. In 1818 he migrated to Canada at Nicolet, Québec, where he married
a second time and had 14 children, including two sets of twins.

Testing conducted by Family Tree DNA in 2007 compared the DNA profile of Hayner Family
Association President Clifford Nichols Hayner II (#3585) to that of John A. Haner (R172). The
results of the testing indicated that the line of Russel Haner is directly related to that of Johannes
Haner, the immigrant. Now the researchers in this family must determine where the actual link
resides.

Russel Haner, born ca 1800 in the State of New York (so stated by a son and two daughters on
their census returns), on 29 Nov 1825 bought a 100-acre farm in Edwardsburgh Twp, Grenville
Co., Ontario; it was the west half of Lot 4 of Concession 7 near the present village of Shanly. For
this he paid 50 pounds of lawful money of Upper Canada. They lived first in a log house, then a
stone house; there is a stone house there today, but it is a modern house rebuilt from the old
stones. His family were Wesleyan Methodists and attended church at Shanly; the church there is
now the United Church. Russel sold the farm 1 Mar 1876 and moved to Chatham, Ontario with
daughter Sarah and son Cornelius. He died at Chatham, Kent Co., Ontario on 10 Jun

1876. There were 9 children, all born on the farm at Shanly. Russel’s bible and the family photo
was handed down to a descendant of his son John Russell Haner. There is family information in
the bible, but no clues as to who his parents were or where he was born in New York.

Much work on his family has been done by John A. Haner. He has much more data and

biographical material than we could include.

[R] RUSSEL HANER, b ca 1800 New York State, res Shanly, Grenville Co., Ontario; d 10 Jun
1876 Chatham, Kent Co., Ontario. He m 10 Dec 1829 Ann Tucker, b 7 Nov 1809 in
Edwardburgh Twp Ontario, d/o William George Tucker & Ann Cowdrey, who came from
Connecticut to Grenville County. Ann (Tucker) Haner, the first of 12 children, d 13 Dec 1853,
bu Shanly Cem. Much work on the Tucker line has been done by Gordon Tucker of Newport RI,
a descendant of Ann Tucker’s brother George Rex Tucker.
R1.Sarah Ann, b ca 1830, unm; was living at home when her father sold the farm in 1876;
in 1881 was living with her sister Ruth and brother-in-law David Greville near Chatham. Later
she joined her brothers John and Cornelius in Revelstoke, BC. She she died 23 Nov 1901 and is
buried there.

R2.Mary A., b ca 1832; unm. She was absent but recorded in the 1851 census for Shanly;
in 1891 census was a nurse at a private residence in Maidstone Twp., Essex Co. Ontario not far
from her siblings.

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R3.William, b 27 Mar 1836
R4.Maria, b ca 1837 Shanly, Ontario. She m 13 Apr 1859 Duncan McLean of Augusta
Twp, Grenville Co, a brother of Lydia McLean who married Maria’s brother George (#R6).
Duncan died the year after their marriage at age 26. Maria was still at home in the 1867 church
records of Shanly; no further information is available.

R6. GEORGE TUCKER HANER, b 15 May 1842 Shanly, d 9 Aug 1919; m 28 Dec 1864
Lydia Ann McLean, b 21 Jul 1842, d 11 May 1935; she was sister of Duncan (see #R4) and
cousin of David (see #R5). Before his marriage he worked in a water-powered sawmill near the
Ottawa River for his uncle George Tucker. A farmer in Chatham, Ontario, he moved to Nebraska
in 1879 and eventually settled at Friend, NE. George farmed, dealt in real estate, and was justice
of the peace. After retirement he and Lydia went to Red Willow, Alberta to live in a house
provided by their son Cyrus. Both are bu at Red Willow.

R8. JOHN RUSSELL HANER, b 29 Jul 1849 Shanly, d 19 Apr 1931 Greeley, BC (near
Revelstoke, no longer exists). He m(1) 7 Aug 1872 at Edwardsburgh Twp Alice Johnson, b 1854
Troy, NY. The John Russell family probably moved in early 1876, the same time his father
Russel, brother Cornelius and sister Sarah moved to the Chatham, Ontario area. Their father died
soon after the move. Alice probably died soon after the 1881 census which shows them in
Chatham.

M. Haner b 1899 Australia; probably divorced. He m(2) Mary Alferd, b 10 Dec 1876 in
Wisconsin (div). He m(3) 26 Jun 1924 Priscilla Brode, b 1875 Poughkeepsie, NY; d 25 Feb 1940
Los Angeles, CA. He m(4) 22 Sep 1941 Lucy Smith, b 1876 NY. James was a WWI veteran in
the CEF to France. He was an auto salesman, carpenter and contractor.
R8. JOHN RUSSELL HANER, b 29 Jul 1849 , m(2) ca 1887 Jane Owen, b 16 May 1851
Birmingham, England, d 6 Nov 1942 bu Vernon BC. In Essex Co., Ontario John Haner had a
partnership with John Owen (probably Jane’s brother) in a sash & door business from 1887 to
1898, when the Haner family moved to Trout Lake, BC where they were involved in lumbering.
They moved to Greeley, BC, where John was a rancher. He is bu Revelstoke cem;

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R35.John Milton (“Milt”), b 19 Feb 1889

R36.George Henry, b 7 Sep 1891, d at a young age in BC.

R37.Charles Bentley, b 6 Nov 1894, d 20 May 1910 at Spirit Lake, ID. While he was
working at age 15 in a saw mill his foot was crushed in the machinery and he died from shock.
His brother Milton went to Spirit Lake and brought the body back to Revelstoke BC for
interment.

R39.John Alvin (“Jack”), b 9 Aug 1887, d 22 Sep 1983; unm. He was known as “Ripper”
because of ripping up and down the roads of Manitoulin on his motorized bicycle. In the early
days of Hollywood, Jack was a stunt man, but retired due to a serious head injury and returned
home to Manitoulin.

R30. CYRUS EDGAR HANER, b 22 Jun 1878 Dover East Twp., Kent Co., ON, d 11 Nov 1944;
m(1) 4 May 1899 Maggie May Thompson, b 19 Oct 1881 Friend, NE, d there 29 Dec 1906.
Cyrus came to Nebraska with his parents and sister in 1879 as an infant; he got a high school
education in Friend, NE. Cyrus and a partner ran a blacksmith shop in Blue Vale, York Co., a
short distance from Friend. The shop burned and he went back to the Friend area and farmed.
Maggie died after giving birth to their fourth child, who also died.

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R77.Russell Edgar, b 24 Apr 1900
R78.Raymond Maxfield, b 10 Jan 1902 Friend, NE, d 10 May 1987 Stettler, Alberta. He
m 25 Jun 1924 Mable Henry (sister of Pearl, wife of #R77); div. He was a farmer in the Red
Willow area, and for several years a partner with his brothers Russell and George in a garage.

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R81.son
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R82.daughter
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R83.son
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R84.son
R85.daughter, d at birth.
R35. JOHN MILTON HANER (“Milt”), b 19 Feb 1889 Woodslee, Rochester Twp, Essex Co.,
ON, d 19 May 1970 Vernon, BC; m 15 Jul 1929 Kathrine Teresa Bell (“Kate”), b 9 Apr 1904
Falkland, BC, d 4 Nov 1984. Milt came to British Columbia with his parents at age 9, and as soon
as he was old enough he started to work in the saw mill at Trout Lake. Through the years he had
many occupations: butcher, pole buyer, farmer, road and bridge builder, prospector, hunting
guide. He helped build the army base at Vernon during WWII, and a precious metal separation
plant after the war. Soon after marriage Milt contracted to clear a survey line north of Revelstoke
for the “Big Bend Loop”, a road now bypassed by the Rogers Pass Transcanada Highway 1. Kate
was cook for a crew of 20 men on this job.

two brothers, and farmed for his father, and for himself after his marriage. From 1949 to 1959 he
was a partner with his brothers Raymond and George in a garage and bulk oil business, later
returned to farming until he and Pearl retired to Stettler for the rest of their days.

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R167.daughter
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R168.daughter
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R169.daughter
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R170.daughter
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R171.daughter
R79. RALPH EMERSON HANER, b 21 Dec 1903 Friend, NE, d 20 Jun 1987 in Central Valley
(now Shasta Lake) CA, m 18 Nov 1925 Christie Amy Walker, b 23 Jun 1908 Edberg, AB, d 14
Feb 1984 Redding, CA.; both are bu at Redding, CA. In 1911, Ralph moved with his father and
two brothers to farm at Red Willow, AB. After his marriage he was a machinist in 1926 in Los
Angeles, CA but returned to Red Willow where he farmed until 1938 when they moved to
Central Valley, CA. Ralph worked on bridge and dam construction. During and after WWII he
worked in a shipyard in Los Angeles, CA, and building Air Force bases in Alaska, then worked
on construction as a plumber out of Redding, CA until retirement in the late 1960s. Christie
worked for the Dept. of Motor Vehicles and then Pacific Gas & Electric Co. until she retired.

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R173.son
S. JOHN C. HANER
Pennsylvania to Illinois

We do not know the background of the family of John C. Haner. He was living in Pennsylvania
in the late 1700s, his elder children were born in Pennsylvania, so it seems likely that he was of
German origin. We cannot connect him with the Johannes Haner who was in the 1710 Palatine
emigration to Livingston Manor, New York; John’s parents may have been among the
Pennsylvania “Dutch” who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the mid and late 1700s.

[S]. JOHN CHRISTOPHER HANER, born in 1772, died 28 Dec 1846, bu in Indian Field cem
in Lexington, McLean County, IL. The middle name is from a descendant of S5; others knew
only the initial “C”. Several affidavits in IL state that John Haner died in Dec 1847, one says 5
Mar 1847. He married (1st) Catherine Weaver and had 8 children. The eldest two were born in
Pennsylvania in 1796 and 1798; the youngest 5 were born in Fayette Co., Ohio in 1801 to 1814.
We conclude that the family moved to Ohio in about 1800. In about 1837 John C. Haner built the
first watermill on the Mackinaw River near Lexington in McLean County, IL. It was called
Haner’s Mill. Two of his sons each built a mill, and the area became a center for grist and lumber
operations. John C. Haner married (2nd) 22 Apr 1843 in McLean Co. IL Mary Neloland, b ca
1786 in IL. John was Mary Neloland’s 3rd husband, she having been married to David Ross ca
1819 until he died 28 Feb 1834; then to — Gunner (div); and finally to John Haner in Apr 1843.

S3. JOHN HANER, Jr. (“Rev”), b 23 Oct 1800, d 20 Nov 1852 in McLean Co. IL. He built a
saw mill near the Mackinaw River. He m 29 May 1823 Elsie Kirkendall in Fayette Co. IL.
Names of only 5 of their 9 children are known:

Note on FLESHER families: Three of the children of Coonrad Flesher married three of the
children of John C. Haner. They are listed below as Sarah Flesher who married S4.Jacob Haner;
Thomas Jefferson Flesher who married S6.Mary Haner, and Elizabeth Ann Flesher who
married S7.Isaac Newton Haner. Further down the line, the brothers Robert Flesher and Russell

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Flesher married the sisters Mary and Fannie Herberth who were descendants of John C. Haner
(see # S120 below.) In addition, Sarah Popejoy, who married S16.Henry Haner, was a daughter
of Matilda Flesher and William Popejoy.

We are still unable to place all of the different Hainer families in Canada before 1800. Henry
Hainer and wife Dorothy were parents of Albert Hainer and Richard Hainer. The sons were
both from Grantham; they married sisters, Catherine and Hannah Volluck (Vollick), and both
served in Butler’s Rangers, as did their father. We will designate these brothers as T. Albert
Hainer and TT. Richard Hainer. All this is subject to revision, but we want to get these two
families into the same chapter. Descendants of Albert Hainer are given below; the descendants
of Richard Hainer follow.

T. ALBERT HAINER
Albert Hainer was born near Albany, NY perhaps about 1758, as he was at least 15 years old at
the time of the Revolutionary War. It is said that his great-grandfather was born in Holland and
emigrated to America where he settled near Albany, married Margaret Jackson. Tradition has it
that Margaret Jackson was made a captive of the Indians, lived two years among them, and
married the man who rescued her. We believe that Albert was with his father, a Henry Hainer,
both enlisted in Butler’s Rangers during the Revolution. After the war was over they entered land
near St. Catharines, Ontario, which they improved. In a land petition dated ca 1787 Albert was
granted 200 acres for himself, 200 for his wife and 50 acres for each child, total 450 acres.
Evidently at that time only one child had been born. Our documentation for the family of 11
children is based on the children’s applications for land, which is the proof for their parentage.

[T] ALBERT HAINER, b ca 1758 in New York, d 2 Jul 1813; m 1787 Catherine Volluck, d/o
Isaac Volluck (Vollock), a member of Butler’s Rangers. The reference OC in the following list
refers to the Order-in-Council for land grants received as son or daughter of a Loyalist. The order
of birth of the children is uncertain.
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T1.Dorothy, m 24 May 1807 David Putman of Louth. OC 16 Aug 1810, 20 May 1817.
For descendants, see section T1.
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T2.Henry (of Grantham), b ca 1789
For descendants, see section T2
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T3.Isaac (of Grantham), b ca 1791
For descendants, see section T3.
T4.Mary, OC 20 May 1817. She may have married a Miller.

+ T6b.George, b ca 1809, m Mary Ann Larroway . Known to be a brother of Elizabeth (see
above).
+ T6c.George (of Grantham and Bayham), b ca 1809; m Mary Ann Sanger. He may be the
same as T6b (above), or possibly son of George Hainer, #152 in Vol. 1 of this book, who was
born in NY and came to Canada.. Placed here for reference; should really be in Volume 1.
For descendants, see section T6c

T1. DOROTHY HAINER, m 24 May 1807 David Putman of Louth. He was of wealthy
parents, captain of a vessel on Lake Erie. The boat was wrecked near Crystal Beach and the crew
escaped in small boats, drifted down to the mouth of the Chippewa and settled on the south side
of the creek east of Wellandport. The had a large family, but it is stated in The Putman Family
Tree (1932) that David left his wife “who said he would never return since his family considered
Canada a wilderness”. Issue: (PUTMAN)

T51.John, m Marilla Cook

T52.Adam, m(1) — Robins; m(2) Delila Grough

T53.Albert, m Mary Vaughan

T54.Francis, m(1) — Crosby; m(2) Mary Jane Morrow

T55.Henry, m Malinda Robins

T56.James, m Mary Jane Myres of St. Catharines

T57.William, m Elizabeth Caughill

T58.Mary, m Edmund Vaughan

T59.Hannah, m(1) Myron Brooks; m(2) George Johnson

T60.Elizabeth, m Peter Kells

T2. HENRY HAINER

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The family of T2. Henry Hainer has been studied by Corlene Taylor and by Ann (Hainer)
Hughes and her father. In addition to the 5 sons listed here, there were possibly as many as 5
daughters, one of them being a Dorothy Hainer. The following list is the best we can do, but is
somewhat inexact due to the lack of Bibles and wills in these early Canadian families.

T2. HENRY HAINER, b ca 1789, d after 1846, before 1851; m Nancy (Hannah) Schram, b ca
1799, d/o Valentine Schram. We believe the names Nancy and Hannah were used
interchangeably. Hannah, wife of Henry Hainer, petitioned for land in 1821 as daughter of
Valentine Schram of Louth, a UE Loyalist. After the death of Henry Hainer, Nancy/Hannah
remarried to John Patterson (whose first wife had been Chloe Hainer, #TT5, first cousin of
Henry). The 1851 census of Louth shows John Patterson, 67, born U.S. farmer, Presbyterian, and
Nancy age 52 with children Robert W. Hainer 13, Mary Hainer 10, Melissa Hainer 6. The
marriage record of Melissa Hainer in 1862 referred to her mother as Nancy Scram Haner. Henry
Hainer/Hayner lived in Grantham Co., Ontario where he received a land grant, OC 20 May 1817.
The following list is stated by Corlene Taylor to be “Probable family of Henry Hainer”, with 9
children. The list is based on census, family records, obituaries, and Ontario Vital Statistics
records; see the section on Louth Hainers in Corlene’s 1993 book Hainers From Niagara for
many detailed references. Most of the birth years marked as “ca” are approximate, based on
census records of Louth Township.

T104. JAMES HAINER, b ca 1834; res in 1851 with his sister Deborah and her husband Charles
Seburn, neighbor of Mathew Seburn. He m(1) Libby — (Isobelle). He is listed in 1861 census as
a cooper, in household is the widow Elizabeth Boner, age 60, b Ireland.

T107. ROBERT WESLEY HAINER (Hayner), b 26 Dec 1839 in Canada, m there 30 Dec 1864
Dorothy Ann Morgan, b 22 Nov 1841 in Canada, d 20 Jun 1930 in MI, d/o Daniel Morgan &
Charlotte Fox. His brother Thomas Hainer married Dorothy’s sister Susan Morgan. He moved to
the United States in 1865 or 66 and lived both at Port Hope, MI and at Romeo, MI. He d 30 Mar
1896 from being kicked by a horse and is buried in Rosehill cem near Marine City, MI. Issue:

Tradition is that he was of Dutch ancestry, an orphan raised by a family named Brant (Bradt,
Bratt) and that he had brothers Charles, Matthew, and James. (These brothers may be others
raised by the Brant family, not his own brothers). He is not to be confused with another John
Henry Hainer, born 1841 (#T803). John’s children adopted the spelling HAYNER.

T3. ISAAC HAINER (Haner), b 1792 or before, d Sep 1859 near Monmouth, IA. He m
Magdalena May, b near St. Catharines, Ontario, d 1877 in Monmouth, IA, d/o Peter May who
was b near Albany, NY. Peter was son of William May, a member of Butler’s Rangers. Isaac was
a farmer, served in the War of 1812, received land grant in Grantham, Ontario, OC 20 May 1817;
later improved a homestead of 100 acres in Moulton Twp near Hamilton, Ontario, where Peter,
George, Andrew, Celeste and Phoebe were censused in 1851. He then moved to St. Catharines. In
1855 he sold out and moved to Monmouth, Jackson Co., IA where he purchased a farm which he
improved and upon which he died in 1859. Their 12 children were all born in Canada; the order is
uncertain.

T302. ALBERT HANER, b 24 Aug 1820 near St, Cathartines, Ontario, Canada, d 1894 Jackson
Co., IA; m at Manchester, NY 28 Mar 1849 Charlotte Vrooman, b 28 Mar 1829 near London,
Ontario, d ca 1891 in Maquoketa Township, Jackson Co., IA, d/o Adam Vrooman and Elizabeth
McCowan (she b near St. John, Nova Scotia). At age 16 he enlisted in the Canadian militia and
served in 1837 during the Canadian Rebellion. He farmed in Canada until 1855, moved to
Maquoketa Township, Jackson Co., IA where he was one of the earliest settlers. Note: An 1851
census record of Moulton Twp, near Hamilton, gives Albert age 30, married to Charlotte age 22,
and with them an Elizabeth age 10, Ransford age 5, Jane age 4. We cannot place this Elizabeth
Hainer.

T347.Anna, m Reid of Detroit MN
They also adopted 4 children. The family moved back to Canada in 1861, then to Detroit in
1880.

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T309. ANDREW HANER, b 12 Mar 1835 in Canada West, d 9 Jan 1918; m 23 May 1856
Corrintha McComb (McCombs); b 27 May 1840 Welland Co., d 30 Aug 1917, both b St.
Johns,. MI. She was d/o Samuhl.Census of Wainfleet Twp includes Mary McComb, 61, a widow
(perhaps her mother), and children Ernest, 4, and Wilford, 2. They moved to MI in 1864. Birth
years below are based on the Michigan census of 1870. The obit of Mrs Hainer states that they
had 9 children, 6 of whom living in 1917; the obit lists surviving children: Mrs S.W.Ferguson
(Detroit), W.W., (Lansing); Mrs. T.W. Snelling (Elsie); Orlo (Mt. Pleasant); Lewis and Joseph
(St. Johns).

T348.Jeanette, b 3 Dec 1859, m 1877 Samuel Ferguson; 3 ch.

T349.Wilford, b 21 May 1859 (inconsistent), d Jan 1950, m 1875 Belle Abbot. Some ch
bu Duplain MI. Since he celebrated his 100th with 5 g-g-grandchildren, it seems that his birth
year was 1850, not 1859.

T318. CHARLES EDWARD HANER, b 9 Aug 1865, d 5 May 1941; m 1887 Hattie Louise
Griffin, b 13 Jun 1865, d 10 Jan 1946. He was a carpenter and violinist who played for square
dances; bought large farm in Clinton Co., IA in 1904; moved to town of Maquoketa in 1933.
About 1900 the name changed from Haner to Hainer.

T5. JOHN HAINER, b ca 1795, of Grantham, d 4 Jan 1860 in Brant Co., Ontario; m Nancy
Bowman. This line has been researched by a descendant, Jacqueline Morrison Miller, and others.

According to Corlene Taylor, “In Grantham in 1828 there appear to be 2 Johns as well as a John

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B. with families. It is possible that one John was the son of Albert, one was probably the eldest
son of George (son of John Sr.[?]) and the third, John B. the son of Zacharias Hainer. ” ... Until
proved otherwise, we take the John Hainer of this section to be the son of Albert. The petition of
John Hainer of Grantham, dated 13 Apr 1819 and which he signed, asks that Alexander Stewart
of York, Gentleman, be permitted to locate the land for him. Witness was Isaac Hainer, who
signed by mark. The cover of the petition states “Received from James May 18 Jan 1820.” He
was allowed 200 acres as the Son of a Loyalist, Albert Hainer UE. This seems to be significant
evidence that our T5.John Hainer was son of Albert.
Family legend says that he was part of the small invading company which seized and destroyed
Buffalo and fought the bloody battle of Lundy’s Lane in the War of 1812. The 1851 census of
Brant County shows that he was born about 1796 in Canada West [now Ontario]; he d 4 Jan
1860. In 1822 he married Nancy Bowman, b ca 1805, d 4 Nov 1892, d/o Adam Bowman and
Hannah May. The land on which John farmed belonged first to the sister of Hannah May. John
Hainer died 4 Jan 1860 and is buried at Northfield, where his tombstone lists his age as 64. Nancy
Bowman remarried 26 Jul 1871 Sylvanus Nichols, a minister, who was b ca 1805, d 6 Jun 1887
[his ordination certificate in 1852 is spelled Sdilvanis or Silvenis Nickols.]

After Permilla’s death Nelson Bessy married Jennie Byers, and had 5 more children. Jennie Byers
was a sister of Margaret Byers who married Permilla’s brother John W. Hainer (#T510). The
children of Nelson Bessy and Jennie Byers were half-siblings of the 5 children of Permila Hainer.
These BESSY children were .
Lillian (b ca 1873, d 1898); .
Charles N. (b 1875, d 1952); .
Edith

— ; m(2) Catherine Racknor (Rachnor), b ca 1834 Germany, d 1875 at birth of daughter Mary.
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T544.Elizabeth, b 1854
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T545.John Henry, b 31 Dec 1858?
T546.Mary, b & d Oct 1875; mother and baby died.
T507. CHARLES HENRY HAINER, b 2 Jun 1834 Northfield, Ontario, d 17 Aug 1915
Stouffville. He began preaching at age 17 and was ordained at age 18. So marked were his gifts
in the field of Evangelism that during his lifetime he held pastorates in nearly every church of the
Canadian Conference, and for a time held the office of Conference Evangelist. All told, Charles
Henry Hainer had 8 sons and one daughter; all eight of the sons became ministers – something
of a record – although one of them later became a
inventor. On 13 Dec 1853 he married (1st) 13 Dec
McCormick of Burford, b 4 Dec 1833, d 29 May
John McCormick.

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T554.Frederick Lee, b 28 Aug 1881
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T555.Herbert Milton. b 2 Apr 1890
T508. JULIA ANN HAINER, b 2 Oct 1838, d 27 Dec 1899, b Northfield, Brant Co., where her
children are buried. She m 16 Apr 1855 Daniel S. Utter, b 1830 or 1831, d 22 Nov 1920. They
lost 7 children within 17 days in a diphtheria epidemic in late December and early January 1877–
78; three died on one day. Only the eldest child survived, who was visiting away from home; they
had other children later. Issue: (UTTER)

Not much is known about this presumed daughter of Albert Hainer She received an OC grant on
11 Aug 1831, married John Campbell and had a son Nelson Campbell. Corlene Taylor writes that
she “found a record which states that George Campbell’s father Nelson married Arthur Hiltz’s
daughter; Nelson Campbell’s mother was a Hanor, sister to George Hanor. All were from
Grimsby-Grassie district..” Nelson can be traced from Grimsby to Bayham, ON. We tentatively
place George Hainer, brother of Elizabeth and therefore son of Albert, as T6b in the list of Albert
Hainer’s children.

T6b. GEORGE HAINER

T6b. GEORGE HAINER, b ca 1809. There is considerable uncertainty about his parentage but
we place him here, subject to later correction. Corlene Taylor thinks it likely that he was a brother
of Elizabeth Hainer, and that he married Mary Ann Larroway, b ca 1809. Possibly this George
Hainer has been confused with another George Hainer , also born ca 1809, designated as T6c,
who married Mary Ann Sanger (see below.) Or the wife of our George Hainer may have been
was known both as Mary Ann Larroway (per Corlene Taylor) and as Mary Ann Sanger (per John
Garner) These workers give the same set of children, listed below. Perhaps she was born a
Sanger and she was a Larroway widow, or vice versa. More research is needed on this line. We
give Mary Ann’s children under T6c.George Hainer, realizing that T6b and T6c may be the same
person.

T6c. GEORGE HAINER

Another George Hainer?

T6c. GEORGE HAINER was born ca 1809 and died between 1871 -1881. He may or may not
be the same person as Elizabeth’s brother mentioned in Sec. T6a just above. John Garner,
working with the late Glen Sanger, gives the wife of his George Hainer as Mary Ann Sanger,b
ca 1808, d/o Samuel Sanger and Lucretia — . b ca 1808. This George Hainer may be a son of
#152 George Hainer, born ca 1767 in Livingston Manor NY. He received a land grant in
Grantham, Ontario on 4 Apr 1797. George Hainer #152 had one unidentified child, which might
well have been a George. This scenario has no place for a daughter Elizabeth. More research
will be needed to conclusively identify this mysterious George Hainer.

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T701.Catharine, b 1842
T702.John Henry, b ca 1843, m 31 Oct 1868 Louise Dell, b ca 1847. Said to have frozen
to death, being lost in a storm in Muskegon Lake, MI. He had 2 ch; widow m Eugene Prescott
and moved to Bangor, ME.

T703. GEORGE HAINER, b ca 1845, d 9 Mar 1911, m 27 Dec 1868 Mary Ann Sanger,2
sons. The late Glen Sanger is reported to have believed that there were two Mary Sangers,
relationship not known. Another source has Sarah — as George’s wife.

T714.William E., b ca 1878
T715.George F., b ca 1880

T707. CHARLES W. HAINER, b ca 1853, d 19 Jan 1905; m Isobel Leach; he was killed in a
boiler explosion. He had 5 ch; 4 infants died in Sep 1888, his son Murray E. m Pearl Hotchkiss
and had 4 ch and 9 grandchildren. Among the grandchildren are Russell and Rosina May Hainer.

T716.Murray E., d 21 Jul 1953, was in Straffordville, Bayham, ON. He m Pearl
Hotchkiss. He had 9 children and 27 grandchildren.

T8. JAMES HAINER, b ca 1810, m(2) 1875 Jane Dodge (d/o Adam & Hannah [May]
Bowman), widow of a Dodge. The marriage certificate for the 2nd marriage states that he is s/o
Albert and Catharine Hainer.

2nd Generation of T8:

The following is not to be confused with another John Henry Hainer, born 1831 (see #T110).

T803. JOHN HENRY HAINER, b 10 Aug 1841 in Bayham Twp, Elgin Co., Ontario, where he
was ordained a Methodist minister. The 1861 census of Bayham shows John Hayner, s/o James
Hayner and Catherine, all born in Upper Canada; this John, age 20, was one of 9 children
including an Ann and an Ellen (note names of John’s daughters below). John Henry Hainer was
naturalized ca 1860 at Detroit; married Emma Katherine Hopkins in PA, where his first son was
born; moved to Fall Creek, WI where his second son was born. In 1871 he went as a minister to
Eau Claire, WI where he died in 1905. Issue:

T810. WILLIAM HAINER, b in PA, wife’s name not known. He lived in Manistee, MI In
addition to the three daughters listed here, the connection with families in Manistee remains to be
explored. We cannot place James Hainer, age 22, b in WI, who m Mamie Hope in Manistee 10
Aug 1897; or Richard A. Hainer of Manistee, d age 47, with 8 ch.

Richard Hainer of Grantham (usually known as Derrick Hainer) petitioned 17 Aug 1795 stating
that he had 4 years of service as a Private in Butler’s Rangers; his wife, Hannah Volluck, was a
daughter of Isaac Falk (Vollock) of the same Regiment. His brother Albert married Hannah’s
sister Catherine Volluck (see Section T. above). He entered a second petition for 50 acres for each
of three children born before 1789. He had 9 daughters. There was also a son, name not known,
who must have died young; he was listed in the 1786 and 1787 census lists. The order of birth of
the children is uncertain.

TT1. DOROTHY HAINER, b 26 Apr 1784, d 2 May 1850; m(1) 5 Aug 1802 John May, b29
Feb 1776, d May 1813 or 12 Nov 1812. She is bu in the Read lot at St. John’s Cemetery, Port
Dalhousie. He was a cousin of William May who married her sister Catharine. Issue: (MAY)

TT5. CHLOE HAINER (Clarinda in land petition, Clary in baptismal record of her first son), b
1 Feb 1792, d 1 Aug 1850; m John Patterson by 1820. He remarried to Nancy/Hannah
(Schram) Hainer, widow of Henry Hainer (s/o Albert, see #T2) as shown by his 1852 will. All 5
children of Chloe married and lived in Louth. Issue: (PATTERSON)

TT7. EVE HAINER, b ca 1798, m after 1816 but before 1823 to George Yocum of
Chinguacousy West, res in the Grantham-Louth area. They are shown in the 1828 census with 4
males under 16, living near other members of the Hainer family. We do not yet have the names of
these four sons.

TT8. MARGARET HAINER, b ca 1800, d 27 Jun 1864 in her 64th year; m after 1823 and
before 1827 John Frederick Schram of Pelham, b ca 1800, d 21 Nov 1879. They raised the
daughter of his brother. This Frederick Schram was known as “Mountain” as he lived in Pelham
back of the escarpment which was and still is known as “The Mountain.” His cousin Frederick
Schram of Louth, perhaps of smaller stature, was known as “Monnie” (or little man), married
Margaret’s sister Cornelia (#TT4).

TT422.Cornelia, b 23 Jan 1827, m Eli Gregory. Is said to have been raised by her aunt
Cornelia Hainer Schram (TT4)

TT423.William Hamilton, b 13 Mar 1829, m Mary Ann McVeigh

TT424.Margaret Ann, b 16 Apr 1832, m Capt. James Kelly

TT425.Sarah Jane, b 13 Nov 1834, m William Murray Cosby

TT426.Matilda, b 1 Aug 1837, m John Wood

TT427.Mary Louise, b 3 May 1841, m George Mathews

U. MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS
We give here, for the record, some fragmentary data for various persons named Haner about
whom very little is known.

[UA] ALFRED HANER, b ca 1828-1830 possibly in or near Oneonta, NY, d between 1910 and
1920, a carpenter. The spelling of the name (Haner, Hainor) and the location of Oneonta, just
west of Schoharie County, suggest that he migrated from Columbia County or from Dutchess
County, if indeed he was of Palatine origin. In 1850 Alfred, age 20, was living with Hannah
Hanor age 63 (his mother?) in Claverack, Columbia Co, NY. A family biography was at one time
left with a friend in Newburgh, NY and has not been located. In about1859, he married Mary A.
Dungan, age 21 in 1860 census, d 15 Jan 1932 in Brooklyn NY, d/o Jacob Dungan, a cigar maker
in Columbia Co. NY and his wife Martha. Several censuses show Mary to be 12 years younger
than her husband. Their children were born in Hudson, NY. The 1910 census of Brooklyn, NY
shows both Alfred and wife Mary were alive and had 6 children, 4 of them living. See Hayner
Family News, Summer 2006. Only a summary of the family results is given here.

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UA3.George, b ca 1865, d after 1932
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UA4.Alfred, Jr. b ca 1877, d after 1932
UA5.Lorette (a son) b 6 Jan 1879, d Oct 1966 Brentwood, Suffolk Co., NY. He m Rose
— , who was b ca 1890. He was a railroad brakeman, ironworker. He was not married at the time
of the 1918 WW2 draft..
Note: The 1860 census of Claverack shows that Alfred Hainor age 32 took into his home not only
his mother Hannah Hainor, age 75, but also a John Hainor, age 45 (hence born ca 1815). We
cannot identify this person. Perhaps he was an older brother or a cousin of Alfred. Christopher
Haner (#575) was the only other Haner (any spelling) in Claverack in 1860, but his son John
was born in 1810, not 1815.

[UB] ALBERT HANER (or JOHN P. HANER), born on a farm about 5 miles from Clifton
Springs, NY. This is almost certainly John P. Haner (#1061), who had a brother named Albert;
The description of the children matches those of John (#1061), not Albert. He had 4 children:

John Hiner was born on 14 Sep 1742 in Leipzig, near Hamburg, Germany, According to family
tradition, he and his brothers Harmon and Alexander landed in Pennsylvania about 1770. John
and Alexander went on to Virginia after they helped Harmon build his home in Pennsylvania,
probably Berks County. It is reported that Alexander never married and made his home with John
in what is now Highland County, Virginia. The brother Harmon may be the Harmon Hiner,
originally from Pennsylvania, who settled in Virginia after his discharge from the Continental
Army. A descendant of John, Jr. (X4 below) has written a 400-page book about his ancestor John
Hiner. Additional material on this family is on pages 226-227 of A History of Pendleton Co.,
West Virginia by Morton, but it is not entirely accurate and is poorly organized.

There is reason to believe that another unrelated Hiner family was in the Doe Hill, VA area in
early times.

[X] JOHN HINER, b 14 Sep 1742 Leipzig, Germany, d Dec 1814, came to America about 1770.
He married Magdalena Burner, d/o Jacob Burner and Leithia Baumgartner (Baumgardner);
Jacob was probably son of Abraham Burner, the first settler in 1745 of (now) Pendleton County,
VA. In the spring of 1776 John settled in the Bullpasture area north of Doe Hill; the homestead is
on the boundary line of Highland County, VA and Pendleton County, WV (note that West
Virginia as a state was not formed out of Virginia until 1863). Their neighbors were the Wilson,
McCoy and Jones families.
X1.Esther, b 1774; m 1794 John Syron; desc. in Dallas, TX and Indiana.

X6. HARMON HINER, b 1782, d 1842; killed from the fall of a tree limb on the Shenandoah
Mountain; lived near Hiner’s Mill; served his county in the State Legislature. He m 1805 Jemima
McCoy, d/o Capt. McCoy, sister of Sarah, Jacob’s 1st wife. He is bu in Hiner cem north of Doe
Hill, VA. Many descendants around Doe Hill, VA and Franklin, WV.

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X32.Sallie
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X33.Benjamin b ca 1820 or 1830
X14. YOUNG J. HINER, (middle name probably Jacob), b 25 Oct 1807 Doe Hill, VA, d 26 Jun
1854 near Bloomington, IL while enroute to Iowa; bu Maquoketa, IA. He m Malinda Anderson,
d/o James Anderson and Mary Blain, a carpenter who moved from Lost Creek, Mifflin Co., PA to
VA with his brother’s family at an early age. Tradition states that Young J. Hiner, like his father,
was a minister in later years. Family tradition states that he was also a surveyor who, with his
brother-in-law Eugene Anderson, surveyed as far west as the Pacific, and that he chose Clinton
County, Iowa as a new home site. He died while bringing his family from Doe Hill to their new
home, expecting to join both family and friends at the new location. He and Malinda had issue in
Virginia.

Reverend J. N. Barnett in 1881 wrote a History of Gilead Lutheran Church, the church in Center
Brunswick, Rensselaer County, NY where so many of our Hayner/Haner family worshipped since
its founding in about 1748. He states

During the War of the Revolution such as adhered to the British Crown removed from the

area to Canada. These refugees were the founders of the Lutheran Churches there, which
were subsequently strengthened by immigrants from this and other settlements.

Jacob S. Marsells in his History of Dundas County, Canada says:

... the first Protestant Church in all the Canadas, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, was built
at Williamsburg. The Lutherans of Williamsburg, in 1789, commenced a frame church, 60
by 40 feet. The winter setting in earlier than usual, the frame was not completed that
season, but in March 1790 it was commenced anew and at the same time an invitation was
sent to Reverend Samuel Schwerfeger who resided in Albany to be their Pastor. He
accepted and arrived in Williamsburg in 1790 and by him the first Protestant Church in all
of Canada was that same year consecrated to the service of the Lord.

We know that some residents of Rensselaer County migrated to Noyan and Clarenceville,
Quebec, where they lived and died. Others removed to Rouses Point, New York, and inscriptions
on graves there say “FROM BRUNSWICK, NEW YORK.” Some of these families, descendants
of Johannes Häner, our Palatine ancestor, are mentioned below and listed in the main section of
this book. Among the Canadian settlers, the spelling Hainer was almost universally adopted.

The United Empire Loyalists lists are the official record of those who have been accorded this
status based on proved records. Today, a person descended from a proved Loyalist line is entitled
to use the official designation “U.E.,” a distinction accorded to many in our own Hayner/Hainer
lines. The “Dorchester Resolution” approved in Council on 9 Nov 1789 defined the U.E.Loyalists
as those “who had adhered to the Unity of the Empire, and joined the Royal Standard in America
before the Treaty of Separation in the year 1783....” The U.E.Loyalists were thus distinguished
from other Loyalists and settlers, i.e., “Late” Loyalists, “Treasury” Loyalists, “Simcoe” Loyalists,
and from regular British and German soldiers who were considered to be “Military Claimants.”

Three Hainer men, Albert, John, and Richard, are listed in The Loyalists in Ontario; The Sons and
Daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada, by William D. Reid, a former member of
the Ontario Archives staff (Hunterdon House, Lambertville, NJ, 1973). The families are given in
part in the original Lists; much data is contained in land petitions. In what follows, the notation
OC refers to the date on which an Order in Council assigned land to the petitioner. “Grantham”
and “Louth” refer to two adjacent early townships in the Niagara Peninsula.

Descendants of Johannes Häner in Canada

So far, we know of three grandsons of the immigrant Johannes Häner who went to Canada in
Revolutionary times. John and Zachariah, who were born in New York, fought as Loyalists in
Butler’s Rangers, and settled in Upper Canada (now known as Ontario.) Also, Joseph Hainer was
with Zachariah (see #57 below.) Two other possible Loyalist grandsons of Johannes are Henry
Hainer, who rented from “Mr. Livingston,” and Burnett Hainer. These five soldiers are
summarized here:

John Hainer [#42], born in 1744 in New York, was a grandson of the immigrant Johannes
Häner. He married Margaret Eva Scherz; lived at St. Catharines, Ontario. He served in Butler’s
Rangers under the Royal Standard during the American Revolution, settled in Canada
immediately after the close of the War in 1785. In his History of Niagara Peninsula, Canada A.

E. Coombs, principal of the Collegiate Institute in St. Catharines, stated “Prior to the outbreak of
the Revolutionary War John Hainer and Jacob Dittrick (Teddrick) lived in New York State.

Hainer was a miller and not required to take up arms but Dittrick immediately enlisted and fought
as long as there was anything to fight for, then these two started off for Canada. Whether they
were accompanied by others we do not know but at any rate they were pursued by Indians, who
are supposed to have followed them at the instigation of the American Rebels. After various
narrow escapes they reached the Peninsula and for about three years lived on the McFarland Farm
near Queenstown. Then they moved to Twelve Mile Creek and took up land on either side of the
stream. As far as early records go John Hainer and Jacob Dittrick were the first settlers of St.
Catharines, Canada, settling there about 1790.”

Land petitions were dated 17 Aug 1795, 16 May 1 1796, 10 Feb 1797. On 11 Apr 1797 John
Hainer entered a joint petition with Jacob Tederick wherein they describe themselves as farmers
at Twelve Mile Creek and stated that John Hainer had been a substantial farmer on the North
River and had lost considerable property for his allegiance to the Crown. One OC granted 100
acres on 22 Apr 1797, bringing his total to 350 acres. An attached affidavit credits the petitioners
with having been at Twelve Mile Creek since the beginning of Settlement (at St. Catharines), and
they were awarded 200 acres each “in consequence of their very respectable characters”. See the
main portion of this book for descendants of John Hainer, outlined below:

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151.Hannah, b ca 1765; m Abraham Clendenning, 8 ch
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152.George, b ca 1766; m Catharina Dittrick; 7 ch
153.Jacobus, b ca 1770
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154.James, b ca 1780; m Margaret Weaver, who after his death m Pawling; 3 dau
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155.David, b ca 1788; m Harriet Stephenson; 4 ch
156.Robert, b before 1789, d before 1802
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157.Catharine, b ca 1790; m Simcoe Stephenson, 3 dau
Joseph Hainer [#56], born in 1759, was a grandson of Johannes Häner. His name and birthdate
appear in Zachariah’s small notebook, but he is not known to have fought with the Rangers. It is
not established that he had a family; if he did, none of them came with him to Canada. He may
have been unable to care for himself, as his brother made arrangements for his keep. He deeded
his land in Grantham to his nephew John B. Hainer and John McCombs, his stepnephew-in-law,
who had married Sophia Brown Lutes Hainer’s daughter.

Zachariah Hainer (Zacharias)[#57], born in 1761, was a brother of Joseph and a grandson of
Johannes Häner. He married Sophia Brown, listed as a spinster in the 1796 marriage record, but
she had been widowed at a young age. Her infant girl was named as Hainer in a notebook kept by
Zachariah, but called Loots (Lutz) in Zachariah’s will. See under #57 in the main part of the
book for more about this family, which is summarized below:

252.Eve, b 26 Dec 1797, probably d. young

253.Catherine, b 6 Feb 1799

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254.John Brown (Johannes Braun), b 7 Oct 1802; he was a Loyalist; m twice, 4 ch.
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255.James, b 22 Jan 1806; m Jane Ross (June); 8 ch.
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256.Mary Ann, b 1810; m James Brown; 8 ch.
Henry Hainer who died about 1788 had an interesting background in New York, but we cannot
firmly place him as a son or grandson of Johannes Häner. He was in Butler’s Rangers, and in his
1787 claim for benefits as Henry Heanor he stated that he was a native of Germany, came to
Ulster County, New York 22 years ago (i.e. about 1765). He had leased about 80 acres of land
from Mr. Livingston, built a house and barn. His livestock, grain, furniture and utensils were
taken by Rebels when he went to the British Army. His reported statement (not in his own words)
that he was a “native of Germany” might well have been “of German origin”, and he might well

have been a relative of our immigrant who in fact was put ashore at West Camp in Ulster Co.
across the river from Livingston Manor where he settled.

Henry Hainer married Dorothy — and had two sons Albert and Richard (also known as
Derrick) who fought with him in Butler’s Rangers. The two brothers married sisters, daughters of
Isaac Volluck (Vollick, Falk). Details on these sons and their descendants are found in this book’s
supplement under code numbers T. Albert Hainer and TT. Richard Hainer.

Burnett Hainer is in the Ontario Crown Lands Loyalist List and the Supplement to that list.
Note that Johannes Häner had a grandson Bernhardt Heiner [#19] born 1747, said to have died in
Canada. It is possible that this person is the same as Burnett Hainer.

The Haldimand Papers contain Loyalists Victualling Lists, which include entries for John,
David, and Frederick Hayner under command of Ebenezer Jessup in Eastern Ontario with the
notation “in engineers employ”; there is also an entry in these papers for a Jacob Hainer. We
cannot identify these persons.

Hainer / Volluck / Bradt Connections

Isaac Volluck (Vollick, Falk) served in Butler’s Rangers. Among his children were four
daughters. The sisters Catharine and Hannah Volluck married the brothers Albert and Richard
Hainer, as described above; the sisters Elizabeth and Sophia married the brothers Christian and
Adrian Bradt (Bratt). Albert Hainer’s daughter Sarah married John Bradt. Thomas E. Hayner
(unplaced, thought to be from St. Catharines) married Susan Bratt (see X69, and Unconnected
Canadian Lines). Andrew Hansler Bradt of St. Catharines married Elizabeth Darling, daughter of
T301.Eve Hainer, b Moulton Twp, and Thomas Darling (see T313). There were many other Bratt
connections not in Canada, as given in the name index for the book.

Unconnected Canadian Lines

Over the years, the Hayner Family Association has received family data from quite a few
Canadian Hainer descendants with whom we can as yet make no definite connection. These other
Canadian lines are reported in some detail in other pages of this Supplement: #R, Russel Haner
(New York to Shanly, Ont., to Manitoulin Island, then to the West); #S, John C. Hainer (b
1831); and sons of Henry Hainer: #T, Albert Hainer and #TT his brother Richard Hainer.
Another unconnected line is that of Roger Hénaire, descended from #Q, Frantz Theobald
Henner who was born in Alsace and migrated from Switzerland to Québec in 1818. Two
fragmentary unconnected lines are given below for the possible use of later family historians.
The book Hainer from Niagara by Corlene Taylor, a family researcher from Beamsville, Ontario,
contains a wealth of material on Hainers in this region; we are grateful for her assistance.

JONATHAN HANER married Mary Tucker; it is not certain that he was born in Canada. He
could be a brother of Russel Haner, b ca 1800 in New York, who married Ann Tucker
(Supplement “R”).

THOMAS E. HAYNER, b ca 1836 in Canada, age 44 in 1880 census of village of Romeo in
Macomb Co., MI; m Susan Bratt, b ca 1838. We believe he is #T106, son of T2, Henry Hainer.
His wife seems also to be known as Susan Morgan. Tradition is that the family originated in St.
Catharines, Ontario.

Birth years in the family of Thomas E. Hayner are based on the 1880 census, which indicates a

[a] Ralph William Hayner, b 5 Nov 1890, d 17 Oct 1978 in Sonoma Co. CA. He
fathered a child, Edward Hayner, with Maxine Irene Myrtle Crance, b Texas 14 Aug 1896, d in
flu epidemic in 1918. This infant son of Ralph was taken to Huntington, WV by his aunt Ruth
Hayner Moore who gave him to her best friend Mrs. Benjamin Jones Hiner, who adopted him and
gave him the surname Hiner (see #X77)..... Ralph William Hayner later changed his name to
Ralph William Leeown and married Eleanor F. Davis. Ralph died 17 Oct 1978 in Sonoma Co.,
CA.
[b] Ruth Hayner, b 3 Nov 1891, m Jonithan Moore.
T146.Europe, b ca 1866 in MI
T147.Robert W., b ca 1870
T148.Maude Mae, b ca 1871; m Harry C. Bradley.
T149.Susa A., b ca 1874
HANER AND HAYNER MEN IN MILITARY SERVICE

The following data on military service up until 1865 was compiled by a great-grandson of Alfred

A. Hayner of Michigan’s 9th Cavalry. He used various sources, including the National Archives.
It would be a major research project to identify with certainty the persons in this list; for that
reason, we must leave it to the reader to use our index to locate the dates and places of residence
of any ancestor listed here. Not all of these names refer to descendants of Johannes Haner, the
1710 Palatine immigrant. We hope that these clues will be a starting point for further research by
others.
“Some of the names and places from our history are Grant, Lee, Sherman, Custer, Atlanta,
Gettysburg, Bull Run, Trenton, New York, Washington. These are names and places that our
forefathers knew. They served with the generals and fought the battles. Freedom as a way of life
has a price. The price is the sweat and blood of our young men and the tears of our women. The
Hayners (Haners) have answered the call to arms from the Revolutionary War through Viet Nam.
The battles and the regiments of these wars are all documented.” .... SPF Clyde Henry Hayner,
Ret., Seabrook, NJ.

All military units are Regiments unless otherwise noted. The regiments listed for the
Revolutionary War are all Militia units.

REV = Revolutionary War
1812 = The War of 1812; covers more than just the year 1812
CSA = Confederate States of America
USA = The Regiments of the Union Armies